Hey guys.

A couple of Chav monkeys decided it would be quite hillarious to both rake their keys down the drivers side of my car the other night. I have CCTV footage of it, but you can't see a lot as it was dark, so the police are hardly interested.

Anyways, before i go off to look into getting it repaired/resprayed, i'd like to have a go at trying to polish as much of it as possible out. Basically there's 2 wavey white lines in the previously flawless shiny black paint, starting at the front of the front wheel arch, and then going all the way to the very back of the car. At various points the marks go fairly deep, so i know these will be visible unless it gets professionally repaired, but i'd estimate that 70% of the marks are very shallow, you can't feel them with you finger.

So has anyone with previous experience at this kind of thing got any tips at how to go about things?

Get a very small amount of T-Cut and rub it along either side of the shallow points, then buff in. Might work.

Failing that, you should have a small curtesy tin of touch up paint for this very sort of thing deep inside your glove box. Run that down along the scratches, allow to dry, and give it some elbow grease with the T-Cut and general car polish.

Unlucky you got keyed - if you find of they have a car go around and write "cock" on the side of it, scratched in really deep to the paint. See how they like it!

Lol, he'd get happy slapped or whatever the newest fad is now, Jack.

The better man walks away, so to speak. Meaning if he did something back, he'd be at an even lower level than they are.

Get a paint job repair kit, they cost about £10-20, I had to get one after someone scratched the paintwork (metallic paint) with a key on a shopping trolly. Took a while to get the prep work done, but unless you look hard (and it helps to know where to look) you can't see where it was done.

http://www.cargolaw.com/images/disaster2003.angelfir6.gif get some of these and blow the bastar*s up

Lol, if i knew where they lived, i'd go round and show them what i thought, and gladly do the time for it.

Thanks for the tips so far, anyone else got anything to add?

Do the above and make sure to top it up every now and then to keep moisture out, but in the long run it's gonna rust and look shit(if you plan to keep it for a couple of years)and rust.

If yer gonna keep the car get it sprayed by a pro, if not just use t-cut and keep it waxed...

I'd advise against the DIY kits, they're not all that and could wind up worse looking

I'd reccommend Halfords Black wax if they

a) Hadn't stopped making a mix of it that actually dries black, not grey
b) Hadn't stopped making it altogether


But I can reccommend

http://www.redexpress.co.uk/cb ... ODUCT_ENLARGED/BTW375.jpg

It's meant for car bumpers, but it's the closest we've been able to find to the sacred Halfords black wax

There's a company round here that specialises in polishing out things like that - the owner drives a Porsche Carerra which at first glance looks like it has 'Cheating Bastard' scratched in massive letters down the side, but on closer inspection, it's a sticker, with the company name, 'unsightly scratches removed' and a phone number

Quote from Luke.S :

http://www.cargolaw.com/images/disaster2003.angelfir6.gif get some of these and blow the bastar*s up

Except those are flares and are designed to confuse a heat-seaking missle.

Good one.

Quote from Jakg :

Except those are flares and are designed to confuse a heat-seaking missle.

Good one.

Those are chaffs. Maybe he confused them with chavs?

Quote from DarkTimes :

Those are chaffs.

No... they're flares.

Quote from DarkTimes :

Those are chaffs. Maybe he confused them with chavs?

Chaff is strips of tinfoil designed to confuse radar-guided missiles, and don't light up like a flare.

Flares are designed to confuse heat seaking, and chaffs are designed to screw up radar.

Either way, they're a defense mechanism.

Who cares what they are?

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Who cares what they are?

Who cares who cares what they are?
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Who cares who cares who cares what they are??

Bash their heads in and use their blood to fill the scratch, then spray over it.

I'd use my baseball bat. It always works.

The police even recognised the sods who keyed my old car from the CCTV footage and still did nothing. I saw one of them a few weeks later walking past my house too - but as tempted as I was to have a go, even I shy away from confronting over half a dozen younger and fitter yobs! It's a good job we have gun laws, i'd be doing time right now...

Sorry to hear of your misfortune. I decided to leave mine as it was and just got rid of the car come MOT time (seeing as vandalism was a bi-monthly affair where I used to live), so i've no practical tips to offer in removing the scratch.

Practical tips on removing a yob however... Well seems i'm a coward so can't offer help there either !

lol Becky



Well, thanks for the advice everyone, when the weather is ok on a weekend, i'll have a look into trying something. I'll let you know how it go's.

Cheers.

Good excuse for a new car http://www.gadzooki.com/wp-con ... rtin%20db5%20(Custom).jpg

http://image.mustangandfords.c ... r1/super-kitt-mustang.jpg


The Stang is the new KITT

Pssh, Aston (with very cool weapons) or Mustang? I have a Seat Leon, why the hell would i want to DOWNGRADE from that???